On This Day (November 24th) Multiple Choice

1. 1248 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, is one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, but in which country ?

2. 1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father abdicates. What was his fathers name ?

3. 1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called what ?

4. 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes which of his works ?

5. 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain near which Tennessee city ?

6. 1932 – The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens in which city ?

7. 1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to which of the Allied forces ?

8. 1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor is born. He is known in his homeland by what nickname ?

9. 1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from where ?

10. 1962 – Which influential British satirical television programme is first broadcast ?

11. 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in which ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon ?

12. 1971 – A hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money over which US state ?

13. 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts for how long ?

14. 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in which Asian capital city kills at least 112 people ?

15. 2016 – The government of Colombia and the People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's civil war that had lasted for how long ?